Turf Tavern — Restaurant in Town of Glenville

Highly overrated and overpriced. From our experience tonight you can just stay home and cook yourself food that will be better in taste and quality and save yourself an inflated bill.

My fiancé and I found the staff and atmosphere of the restaurant to be off and uncomfortable. The staff weren’t exactly friendly, at least not genuinely, and they constantly gave me off vibes from the hosts (who I think were the owners?) to even our waitress.

Even the other patrons in the restaurant who happened to be predominantly elderly individuals threw off the atmosphere. We were seated between two tables of older people with one having a person who appeared to not know how to lower the obnoxiously loud ringtone on his phone, and the other table having what sounded like someone with an obtrusively loud oxygen tank which frankly made me feel like I was eating at a hospital rather than a restaurant.

This place seems like its trying to tout itself as being a higher-end restaurant, but its not. Besides the service and uncomfortable atmosphere, one of our bread plates was questionably dirty and the food took a long time to come to us. This restaurant has one of the worst and unremarkable menus I’ve encountered; it made picking something from their unimpressive entrée list a bit challenging for me, but I went for something simple – the pasta Bolognese, and my fiancé the braised beef short ribs.

Both meals were mediocre at best. The beef short rib was tender, but lacked flavor and depth; in other words it was bland. The mashed potatoes however were good. My pasta was disappointingly mediocre. The overall flavor was average, and the sauce lacked enough meat and was too overloaded with vegetables in my opinion; they even had the nerve to shove two, tiny, stale, and disgusting bread pieces into it that were inedible.

They don’t offer substitutions for their side-salads, which is ridiculous. Not everyone likes or eats salads. You have to pay to substitute it for a small bowl of soup. Either our waitress lied about the price or she was misinformed; we were told it was $3 to substitute, but when the bill came it was $5 and she didn’t even bother to address that discrepancy. My fiancé said the soup was ‘okay,’ but not worth...

Went for the First time Yesterday. Our waitress was amazing and the food timing was perfect. However I have to say both my husband and I were pretty disappointed with the food. Everything but the French onion was pretty bland.

We ordered

Their Cherry smash which seemed to have only muddled a single cherry and seemed to be more of whiskey on the Rocks VS a whiskey smash.

A well cosmo that was the same price as their craft cocktails. Which is on me for not asking what their well vodka is. But it was definitely balanced and well made.

The bacon wrapped dates that was mostly filling a little dates but overall was tasty

I love French onion soup and theirs is definitely good.

We got 2 specials.

The homemade cranberry walnut dressing on the salad tasted good was very sweet but had a very odd texture to it.

My special was the Maple Bacon Salmon which honestly tasted mostly like watered down sugar water. The salmon itself didn’t seem to have any seasoning on it before putting the glaze over it with more glaze served on the side. The salmon could have been cooked a little hotter so there was more searing and crust on it. The rice was very bland and also had no seasoning on it.

My husband’s Special was the Veal and Shrimp with a tomato sauce over pasta. The pasta itself was cooked well. But again over all the dish had no flavor. The sauce tasted as if they didn’t drain off the pasta before adding sauce on top making it taste watered down. The shrimp was breaded for some reason and again very little flavor and very chewy. The veal was also bland.

The side of cauliflower was very dry and again bland.

Overall for the price of the food we were expecting very flavorful and creative dishes. And we’re very disappointed.

I love supporting local businesses but I don’t understand how this one has so many great reviews regarding its food and us having a completely different experience. I’m not sure if they catered to an older clientele and they are cautious of over seasoning for them or if it was an off day for the chief.

We did fill out their survey attached to the receipt. But did not want to complain to the waitress or have our food comped but did want to express our general...

Mrs. Jenner and I have headed for Turf Tavern three times. The first time was a few years ago; a local advertising piece touted a sort of "geriatric special" dinner offering in the pre-prime-dinner hour. The food was good -- not brilliant, but decent bistro fare. The second time, I'd actually booked ahead for a dinner celebrating our anniversary. The hostess/owner was in a snit; we hadn't had a confirmation call back; we left and dined across the river at the local den of iniquity (which was pretty good).

This evening, noting a low-cost option that seemed worth trying at the end of a long day, we wagged our way in for the third time. We managed to miss being seated at the service table -- barely. Mrs. Jenner ordered seafood Newburg; I selected a grilled slice of prime rib. Rather surprisingly, I was told that the meat could not be done rare, though this kitchen supposedly grills to order.

We had recalled remarkably fresh crispy, artisanal baguette; this evening's was -- something else. Mrs. Jenner did like the salad though, and the service was attentive. The chairs, however, were unkind to my tender bottom (...).

The main dishes were very disappointing. My slice of prime rib had the appearance and texture of a rubber shoe heel. It was tough and tasteless. Grilling a half-inch slice of meat should not take more than a minute, or a minute and a half, on each side; this poor slice had been cooked longer than that, and if it was grilled, I would be most surprised (I suspect the meat was not dried and then sautéed at a low temperature, so that its juices were sucked out, and it was more parboiled than fried or broiled). Mrs. Jenner's seafood Newburg was in a sauce that was over-thick -- her term was "glue-y" -- as if the egg-and-cream liaison had been allowed to overcook, or the whole thing thickened with blonde roux, rather than egg in the proper way.

This restaurant gets praise from the local reviewers. I cannot understand that, since the couple I know seem to know decent food. This meal was memorable only for its...